Strange behavior with filenames

Sean Casey sean at ukma.UUCP
Tue Jul 9 13:45:01 AEST 1985


In article <406 at gatech.CSNET> spaf at gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) writes:
>We're running 4.2 BSD (the BRL version) on all our Vaxen.  If I create
>a file whose name begins with a ":" and then try to "cat" it, it works
>on the 780 but gives a "file: Error 0" message on the 750.  This also
>happens on another site's 750 (in fact, it was discovered there --
>credit to tas at dcc1).

We're running BRL Unix (4.2) on a 750 and don't have that problem.
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